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How to change FTW icons

This guide describes how to change the favicon and application icons in Flex Template for Web (FTW).

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The default icons are generated with RealFaviconGenerator. You can upload your original icon to the tool, customize the colors and themes, and download a generated set if icons and an HTML snippet to point to those images.

1. Use RealFaviconGenerator to generate new icons

  1. Open https://realfavicongenerator.net/

  2. Upload your original icon image

  3. Configure platform specific icons

    Note: Remember to set the "Theme color" in the Android Chrome section

  4. Configure the paths to use /static/icons/ as the root path of the icons

  5. Generate the icons

  6. Unzip the favicons.zip archive and replace the default icons and files in public/static/icons/ with the new icons

  7. Replace the default HTML snippet in public/index.html with the snippet from the generator.

    Note: Remove the manifest link from the snippet as we have a default manifest with extra data compared to the generated one. You can edit the default file as you wish.

    Example HTML snippet:

    <!-- Start Favicons from https://realfavicongenerator.net/ -->
    <link
      rel="apple-touch-icon"
      sizes="180x180"
      href="/static/icons/apple-touch-icon.png"
    />
    <link
      rel="icon"
      type="image/png"
      sizes="32x32"
      href="/static/icons/favicon-32x32.png"
    />
    <link
      rel="icon"
      type="image/png"
      sizes="16x16"
      href="/static/icons/favicon-16x16.png"
    />
    <link
      rel="mask-icon"
      href="/static/icons/safari-pinned-tab.svg"
      color="#c0392b"
    />
    <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/static/icons/favicon.ico" />
    <meta
      name="msapplication-config"
      content="/static/icons/browserconfig.xml"
    />
    <meta name="theme-color" content="#c0392b" />
    <!-- End Favicons -->

2. Change map marker icon

The map marker icon in the listing can be found in public/static/icons/map-marker-32x32.png. The dimensions should be 32x32 pixels, so the favicon-32x32.png file can be used to replace the map icon.